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Attached to Project: POV-Ray
Opened by Casper Ti. Vector - 2012-11-10
Last edited by William F Pokorny - 2017-01-07

FS#260 - Patch to let POV-Ray builds with boost >=1.50

Originally resolved in https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=425450.
Attached is a patch with Gentoo-specific code removed.

There are two parts in this issue:

  • The newer boost library requires downstream users to explicitly link to the boost system library (-lboost_system).
  • The newer boost library replaced TIME_UTC with TIME_UTC_, because glibc added TIME_UTC.
Closed by  William F Pokorny
Saturday, 07 January 2017, 20:24 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  

It appears to me in a review of the code and configure script, both issues here were addressed long ago. If I've missed something, please open a new github issue for what I missed. Thanks.

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Christoph Lipka commented on Saturday, 10 November 2012, 08:03 GMT

The TIME_UTC issue has already been addressed with change #5710 (to be released with RC7) - in a different way though; obviously, just changing TIME_UTC to TIME_UTC_ in POV-Ray would sacrifice compatibility with boost < 1.50, which is not what we want.

Not sure about the -lboost_system. Could this be a Gentoo-specific issue?

Casper Ti. Vector commented on Saturday, 10 November 2012, 08:34 GMT

I think the `-lboost_system' issue would probably not be a Gentoo-specific issue. The problem lies in that the absence of `-lboost_system' makes the boost thread linking test (in the configure process) fail, and I have not tested whether this absence would cause compile errors.

Grimbert Jérôme commented on Thursday, 27 December 2012, 15:38 GMT

Testing #5735 [smp], with ubuntu 12.10 & libboost 1.50 (not default)

configure is failing at :
configure:7658: checking whether the boost thread library is usable
configure:7678: g++ -o conftest -pthread -pthread -I/usr/include -L/usr/lib conftest.cpp -lboost_thread-mt -pthread >&5
/tmp/ccbUJ97c.o: In function `__static_initialization_and_destruction_0(int, int)':
conftest.cpp:(.text+0x4f): undefined reference to `boost::system::generic_category()'
conftest.cpp:(.text+0x5b): undefined reference to `boost::system::generic_category()'
conftest.cpp:(.text+0x67): undefined reference to `boost::system::system_category()'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
configure:7678: $? = 1
configure: program exited with status 1

Adding: LIBS="-lboost_system" to the ./configure line allow to get through.

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